June 15th, 2022
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Doctor Who Target 2022 The Fires of Pompeii
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk, www.forbiddenplanet.com, www.waterstones.com and www.bookdepository.com
“My masters will follow the example of Rome… our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!”
It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town’s destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in molten lava, just as history dictates. Or is it?
The Doctor and Donna find that Pompeii is home to impossible things: circuits made of stone, soothsayers who read minds and fiery giants made of burning rock. From a lair deep in the volcano, these creatures plot the end of humanity – and the Doctor soon finds he has no way to win…
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Robert Sienicki
June 17th, 2022 - 5:25amShame they didn’t kept the logo they used on previous ones. More shame because I believe that logo will be retired in few months, cause RTD marketing will probably introduce new one for 60th and Ncuti.
Ben Miller
June 15th, 2022 - 8:17pmI hope we get New Earth gets a target novelisation treatment
Robbie
June 15th, 2022 - 3:38pmplease change the Doctor who logo back as its going to look out of place now 🙁
Anon
June 15th, 2022 - 6:13pmDoesn’t matter what the logo looks like. The target books never had set logo, they always used whichever current doctor logo was around. So you get hartnell, troughton, pertwee with the davison/colin Baker logo and you get doctors 1-7 with McCoy’s logo. It really doesn’t matter.
Nick
June 15th, 2022 - 7:11pmYes but the logo looks sooooo lost on the covers. It’s just not bold enough in font style….
Robbie Martin
June 15th, 2022 - 7:19pmyeah the last one was perfect and like something you want on your self this one looks really lame and less bold
bryan
June 15th, 2022 - 9:16pmI think there is too much cream showing which does’nt help with the whole image overall. I love the Current logo, when its all on one line.
There is the black banner with one of the David Fisher novels image and the logo look fantastic,on two levels. There was a design sheet,with the Current logo, and it was designed to do both sibgle line and stacked. But not on cream. Stark white works and dark works.
As i say, not sure if this image works either. The fire creature is lost and too small.
simon.ss1
June 16th, 2022 - 9:52amI have first editions of all of the original Target paperbacks. (Am old enough to have bought each one from when they started coming out during the 1970s.) The Target book logos, cover styles, and typefaces always changed over the years. Never bothered me. Was just glad each time to get the novelisations…
The Fishmonger
January 21st, 2022 - 9:49pmGood job we didnt waste unnecessary time trying to work out what those codes were.
Jason Z
January 24th, 2022 - 4:33pmTo judge from some of the older comments, the codes mostly seem to refer to authors’ names.
Phil Newman
January 18th, 2022 - 7:18pmIt’s James Moran, The Fires of Pompeii
Dave Raz
November 4th, 2021 - 7:07pmMost target books have been re prints in recent years and all are novelisations of episodes, so Robot and Romans are plausible.
Doctor What
November 4th, 2021 - 10:43amAnother speculation, could the JM mean Jo Martin? Not as the writer but a Target book of Fugitive of the Judoon or The Timeless Children? Or even another near-future episode of Flux that has her as one of the main characters? Probably is more likely to mean the author but we can always speculate
The Fishmonger
November 4th, 2021 - 10:39amHopefully Forbidden Planet will be doing signed versions at some point. I’m loving everyone speculating about the codes.
Dave Raz
November 3rd, 2021 - 11:51amP could be Praxeus. R could be the Romans, Robot, Rosa or Resolution. No JMs spring to mind but could be the New Year Episode?
The Flying Shark
November 3rd, 2021 - 7:04pmJM could be the author? Jamie Mathieson, James Moran or Jonathan Morris?
Anonymous
November 4th, 2021 - 7:12amWhy would it be the Romans or Robot? They’ve already had releases back in the 70 and 80s